JRX Academy · Weekly Rhythm

Student Weekly Meeting

MY WEEK. MY RESPONSIBILITY. MY NEXT MOVE.

The recurring weekly rhythm where every Conscious Crusader reads their week, takes ownership, asks for support, and decides their next move.

WHO’S DRIVING?

This meeting is with you, not about you. Adults companion rather than unnecessarily control.

Purpose

Every Crusader learns to manage their life as a learner

Know where they are
Understand what is happening
Take responsibility
Ask for support
Make decisions
Prepare for the week
Reflect on growth
Identify their next moves

What it is

A weekly reading of the whole week
A place to take responsibility
A place to ask for support out loud
A decision-making practice
Evidence-based self-assessment
A rehearsal for driving your own life

What it is not

Administrative homeroom
A grade review
Adults talking about a silent student
A behavior score
A surveillance dashboard
A punishment for unfinished work

Weekly rhythm

One recurring meeting, many possible formats

The administrator determines the meeting day and time. During the JRX Academy beta year, the same adult may serve multiple support roles where necessary.

Individually
In a small group
As a family/student conference
As an advisory group
With the Academic Specialist
With the Success Specialist
With another designated adult

Student home screen

My Weekly Meeting

Student
Week
Current Virtue
Current Priority
Biggest Win
Biggest Challenge
Next Move

Begin Weekly Meeting

Meeting flow

The same recognizable structure every week

What’s Good?
Read the Field
Calendar Check
Academic Check
Quest Check
Life Check
Cruz Check
Next Moves
Commit
Close the Cypher

Students should eventually be able to facilitate much of their own meeting.

Open the meeting

WHAT’S GOOD?

What went well this week?
What are you proud of?
What did you enjoy?
What did you learn?
Who helped you?
Who did you help?
What are you looking forward to?

Do not begin meetings with problems. Begin by noticing progress, relationships, effort, joy, and accomplishment.

Virtue of the week

Make a Move virtues

Joy
Peace
Love
Unity
Respect
Justice
Compassion
Purpose
Hope
Service

What does this virtue mean?
Where did you practice it?
Where was it difficult?
How could you practice it this week?

The virtue should become something practiced rather than simply discussed.

Read the field

Examine the whole week before deciding what needs attention

School

What is happening academically?

Quests

What projects or experiences are active?

People

Who do I need to communicate with?

Responsibilities

What am I responsible for?

Calendar

What is coming?

Opportunities

What could I participate in?

Challenges

What needs attention?

Support

Where do I need help?

Self

How am I showing up?

What is happening around you that you need to notice before making your next move?

Calendar check

KNOW YOUR WEEK

Classes
Academic Quests
Law Quest
Words Quest
YCS Quest
Entrepreneurship Quest
Athletics
Appointments
Meetings
Deadlines
Family commitments
Mentor meetings
Projects
Events
Showcases
Field experiences

What is happening?
When?
Where?
What do I need to prepare?
Is anything conflicting?
Is anything missing?
What should I add?

Older students should increasingly manage their own calendars.

Time ownership

WHERE IS MY TIME GOING?

Deep work

Work requiring concentrated thought.

Writing
Studying
Research
Building
Creating
Major assignments

Light work

Shorter administrative actions.

Messages
Scheduling
Uploading work
Organizing files
Confirming appointments

What work needs protected attention this week?

Academic check

WHAT ARE YOU ACTUALLY LEARNING?

Do not reduce the meeting to grades.

Reading
Writing
Mathematics
Science
Humanities
Current Academic Work
Assignments
Progress
Challenges
Support Needed

What feels strong?
What feels difficult?
What have you completed?
What are you avoiding?
Where are you stuck?
What support would help?

Academic Specialist check

Review progress
Identify gaps
Recommend support
Assign or adjust learning activities
Identify mastery
Review academic data
Celebrate growth
Identify next academic moves

What do I need academically to keep moving?

Success Specialist check

Managing learning and life

Organization
Time
Habits
Communication
Follow-through
Confidence
Independence
Decision-making
Relationships
Self-advocacy
Problem-solving
Learning to Learn

What helped you succeed?
What got in your way?
Is there a system that needs to change?
What can you do differently this week?
What support do you need?

Quest board

Every active Quest, every week

Arts
Athletics
Leadership
Law
Academics
Hospitality
Technology

Words Quest
Law Quest
Entrepreneurship Quest
YCS Quest

For each active Quest

Current Mission
Current Stage
What I Completed
What Needs Attention
Next Move

Being busy is not the same as moving forward.

What did you actually finish?
What moved closer to completion?
What did you spend time on without making progress?
What should change?

My responsibilities

WHAT DO I OWN?

School
Team
Home
Quest
Community
Self

Every responsibility shows

Responsibility
Due
Status
Support Needed

Ownership means knowing what belongs to you and following through.

Commitments

I SAID I WOULD…

Done
Moving
Blocked
Did Not Do

What happened?
Was the commitment realistic?
Did something change?
Did you forget?
Did you avoid it?
Did you need support?
Do we recommit, change it, or remove it?

Do not automatically shame unfinished commitments. This teaches honest self-management.

Show and prove · Cruz Check

Ground every claim in evidence

“I’m doing better in math.”

Show and prove

What evidence demonstrates improvement?

“I finished my project.”

Show and prove

Where is the work?

“I don’t have enough time.”

Show and prove

Let’s look at the calendar.

Ground self-assessment in evidence.

Cruz Check

What do I know?

Facts.

Cruz Check

What do I think?

Interpretation.

Cruz Check

What can I prove?

Evidence.

Cruz Check

What move should I make?

Decision.

Void that

“I’m just bad at math.”

Void that

What specifically is difficult?
What can you already do?
Where did understanding break down?
What support could help?

“I never have enough time.”

Void that

Read the calendar.
Show and Prove.
Then determine what is actually happening.

Who’s driving?

A reflection on ownership

Did I take responsibility this week?
Did someone have to keep reminding me?
Did I ask for help when I needed it?
Did I avoid something I knew needed attention?
Did I make decisions intentionally?
What can I drive more independently next week?

“Who’s Driving?” is never a punishment. It is a reflection on ownership.

Cruz Control

Calendar
Routine
Workspace
Notifications
Materials
Sleep / readiness
Deadlines
Organization
Learning systems

What system could make success easier next week?

People check

Communication and relational responsibility

Who do I need to talk to?
Who am I waiting on?
Who is waiting on me?
Do I owe someone information?
Do I need to ask for help?
Is there a relationship that needs attention?
Who supported me this week?
Who can I support?

Mentor connection

Mentor
Last Connection
Next Connection
Current Conversation / Goal

Mentors are not supervisors. Their role is relational support, wisdom, encouragement, exposure, and connection.

Challenge board

WHAT’S IN THE WAY?

I don’t understand
I need help
I need a resource
I need more time
I need to talk to someone
I am avoiding it
Something changed
I don’t know my next move

WHAT COULD HELP?

Identify the type of barrier before trying to solve it.

Wins

SHOW YOUR WINS

Completed assignment
Mastered skill
Presentation
Difficult conversation
Quest milestone
Improved habit
Helped someone
Solved problem
Showed courage
Demonstrated virtue
Took initiative
Recovered from mistake

Wins collect in a permanent Win Bank so students can see their own growth over time.

Student voice

WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO KNOW?

Ideas
Concerns
Suggestions
Frustrations
Requests
Opportunities
Changes
Feedback about JRX Academy

Discuss Now
Follow Up
Share with Staff
Share with Council

Student voice becomes operational rather than ceremonial.

Life check

Life Atlas + HEART

Identity
Purpose
Values
Systems
Environments
Relationships
Legacy

Do not force a full Life Atlas review every week. Select one relevant area when it is useful.

Systems: Is your current morning routine helping you?
Relationships: Is there someone you need to reconnect with?

Humility

Excellence

Assertiveness

Respect

Trust

HEART is never a behavior score. Students name one area they demonstrated and one they want to strengthen.

Explore the Life Atlas

Next moves

Prioritize. Don’t build a task pile.

Must Move

The most important action.

Should Move

Important but secondary.

Could Move

Useful if time allows.

Each move requires

Action
Why It Matters
Due Date
Support Needed
Status

MY BIG THREE

The three most important priorities before the next weekly meeting. Students leave knowing exactly what matters most.

WHAT IS THE FIRST PHYSICAL ACTION?

Work on my essay.

Open the document and draft the first paragraph Wednesday at 10:00.

Schedule it

If something matters, give it a place in time.

Commitment

BEFORE OUR NEXT MEETING, I COMMIT TO:

WHAT SUPPORT DO YOU NEED FROM US?

Responsibility and support can exist together.

Close the cypher

One word

What word describes how you are leaving this meeting?

Final Cruz Check

Do I know what matters?
Do I know what I own?
Do I know where I need help?
Do I know my next move?

If yes: make the move.

Weekly summary

MY WEEK AT A GLANCE

What’s Good
Virtue
Biggest Win
Biggest Challenge
Academic Priority
Quest Priority
Life / Success Priority
Big Three
Support Needed
Next Meeting

Guided

Adult asks questions and records responses.

Shared

Student and adult complete it together.

Student-Led

Student prepares and facilitates the meeting.

Do not write the summary for the student. The goal is increasing independence.

Developmental progression

The meeting grows with the student

Ages 5–8

Guided Crusader Meeting

What’s Good?
Virtue
Calendar
What I learned
What I enjoyed
What was hard
What I need help with
One or two next moves

Strong adult support and visual tools.

Ages 8–14

Student Planning Meeting

Review their calendar
Track assignments
Explain academic progress
Manage Quest responsibilities
Identify challenges
Request support
Create priorities
Make commitments
Reflect on systems

Students increasingly carry the meeting.

Ages 14–19

Student-Led Review

Prepare the meeting
Present their progress
Analyze their performance
Manage calendars
Report on Quests
Identify problems
Propose solutions
Schedule deep work
Communicate support needs
Manage commitments
Facilitate sections of the conversation

The student functions like the project manager of their own education.

Weekly meeting history

MY WEEKLY JOURNEY

Priorities
Academic progress
Commitments
Wins
Challenges
Virtues
Quest work
Independence
Goals
Reflections

Am I becoming more capable of driving my own life?

MONTHLY CRUZ CHECK

What did I accomplish?
What did I learn?
What improved?
What kept repeating?
What did I avoid?
Which system helped me most?
What challenge keeps showing up?
What support helped?
What am I proud of?
What should change next month?

STUDENT-LED QUARTERLY REVIEW

What I learned
What I built
What I completed
How I grew
What challenged me
What the evidence shows
Where I need support
What I want next

Weekly data supports formal progress reporting without reducing development to grades.

Portfolio connection

Add to Portfolio

Assignment
Artwork
Presentation
Photo
Video
Law Quest argument
Words Quest achievement
YCS work
Entrepreneurship work
Academic assessment
Reflection

Weekly meetings become a place where students continually document their development.

Support request

I need support

Academic Specialist
Success Specialist
Mentor
Coach
Parent / Guardian
Staff
Peer
Other

What do you need?
When do you need it?
What have you already tried?

Asking for help is part of managing yourself well.

Dashboards

This week, at a glance

What’s Good

Virtue

Big Three

Active Quests

Academic Focus

Next Important Date

Support Needed

Commitments Completed

Next Move

SUPPORT VIEW

Student’s Big Three
Commitments
Upcoming deadlines
Identified support requests
Active Quests
Academic alerts
Recent wins
Unresolved barriers
Next meeting

Adults can add

Observation
Question
Resource
Support Offer

Support, not surveillance. The student’s dashboard stays theirs.

Meeting culture

With you, not about you

This meeting is with you, not about you.
Students do not sit silently while adults discuss them.
Even younger students participate.
The student is the central voice.

See.
Think.
Plan.
Act.
Reflect.

Core questions

What’s good?
What’s happening?
What matters most?
What do you own?
What’s in the way?
What support do you need?
What does the evidence say?
Who’s driving?
What’s your next move?

A successful weekly meeting does not mean every problem was solved.

Awareness
Clarity
Ownership
Organization
Support
Confidence
Responsibility

And knows what happens next.

The progression is the outcome

At age five: adults help me understand my week.
Then: I help plan my week.
Then: I manage my week with support.
Eventually: I lead a meeting about my own learning, use evidence, identify what I need, make decisions, and take responsibility for my next move.

What’s good?
Read the field.
Who’s driving?
Cruz Check.
Set the Big Three.
Make a move.

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